Legal Industry News
June 19, 2009
Court Voids Pro Bono Divorce Docs Due to Ill-Supervised Skadden Counsel
A New York state judge has granted a woman’s request to void her divorce settlement stipulation, claiming that her pro bono divorce attorney – who was an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom at the time – made serious errors in representation and was inadequately supervised.
The plaintiff, a poorly educated, low-income woman named Michele Crespo, hired inMotion, a non-profit legal group, to represent her in her divorce. Skadden attorney Lisa M. Poursine provided the pro bono representation of Ms. Crespo for inMotion – it was the first divorce Ms. Poursine had ever handled and it was supposed to…
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